Directed Me Quotes by Helen Dunmore

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• Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
• Reread, rewrite, reread, rewrite. If it still doesn't work, throw it away. It's a nice feeling, and you don't want to be…
• A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
• As individuals, we are shaped by story from the time of birth; we are formed by what we are told by our…
• However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with…
• However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first…
• I can remember being in my pram: children stayed in their prams much longer then than they do now. A big bouncy…
• I concentrate on the lives of individuals whom the reader comes to know and feel with intimately.
• I have learned so much from working with other poets, travelling and reading with them, spending days discussing poems in progress. There…
• I didn't choose Russia but Russia chose me. I had been fascinated from an early age by the culture, the language, the…
• I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write…
• I was always influenced by language.

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